After completing successfully the course, students should be able to:
- Understand the basic terms/theories of CSR and corporate/business ethics,
- Recognise the strategic importance of ehical and socially responsible behaviour, as well as the significance of
incorporating social responsiveness in strategic planning and management.
- Critically assess, based on CSR theory, business problems by taking into consideration the social and environmental
aspects of business decisions,
- Be able to plan, implement and assess CSR programs,
- Comprehend and assess the role of stakeholders of an orgnanization, as well as the basic characteristics of markets,
customers, corporate governance, employees and environment in relation to CSR and ethics,
- Understand and deepen in CSR frameworks/initiatives and metrics,
- Read and prepare social reports.

General Competences

Apply knowledge in practice

Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies

Adapt to new situations

Make decisions

Work autonomously

Work in teams

Work in an international context

Generate new research ideas

Appreciate diversity and multiculturality

Respect natural environment

Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues

Be critical and self-critical

Advance free, creative and causative thinking

Course Content (Syllabus)

The following areas will be covered:
- Introduction in Corpostate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Business and Society: The social contract
- Organisations/corporations as citizens: Social Oligation, Social Responisbility, Social Responsivess and Social
Performance (Triple Bottom Line Results)
- Planning and Implemention of CSR Programs
- Stakeholder approach and Stakeholders Management
- Corporate Citizenship
- Public Relations and Crisis Management
- Business/Corporate/Individual Ethics
- Customers, Employees, State as Stakeholders

Τeaching will be facilitated through the use of internet. Students will have access, e-class/MOODLE, to teaching material. Further, the required class team projects will be handed in and assesed electinically (MOODLE).

Course Organization

Activities

Workload

ECTS

Individual

Teamwork

Erasmus

Lectures

72

2.6

✓

Fieldwork

2

0.1

✓

Reading Assigment

4

0.1

✓

Field trips and participation in conferences / seminars / activities

2

0.1

✓

Written assigments

2

0.1

✓

Exams

2

0.1

✓

Total

84

3

Student Assessment

Description

Assessment will be carried out through:
- Written or/and oral exams,
- Group project delivery,
- Participation in inclass/outclass activities